Twitter for BlackBerry out of Beta and Now Live!

RIM sent us a message earlier today letting us know that this Twitter for Blackberry release was coming and I am glad to see it has come out of beta and that they listened to feedback for this official release. Download links are provided below. Enjoy!!

The Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones beta started in April and during the course of the preview, RIM released one update to the application. Now it is out of Beta and available for download. Download Links are provided below.

The full launch of the Twitter for BlackBerry application will start this evening and we anticipate the roll out to happen over the course of tonight and tomorrow. The application will be available on BlackBerry App World (www.blackberry.com/appworld) in the social networking category.

The full launch will include support for several additional languages:

• Portuguese EU

• Japanese

• Indonesian

• Russian

• Turkish

• Dutch

• Korean

This version will also feature the ability to access any user’s profile from anywhere in the application using auto-complete functionality for followers.

The BlackBerry users who participated in the beta program for Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones offered incredible feedback and clearly shaped the evolution of this application.

Here are the feature lists from the original beta launch and the update that happened in May:

Features at launch:

• Push Notifications for Direct Messages

• Timeline Support

• Following and Followers

• Posting, Sending, Deleting , Replying and Retweeting Tweets

• User/Saved/Keyword/Proximity Search

• Tweet Photos/Links

• Trending Topics

• Seamless integration into core BlackBerry applications

• URL Shortening

• Auto-Update

New features during the beta:

• Quote Tweets (editing retweets)

• Auto Complete for @ usernames

• View Photos from Yfrog & Tweetphoto

• View Geotagged Tweets

• Personal Info Guard

• Hotkeys for Navigation

• Report as Spam

The full launch of the Twitter for BlackBerry application will start this evening and we anticipate the roll out to happen over the course of tonight and tomorrow. The application will be available on BlackBerry App World (www.blackberry.com/appworld) in the social networking category.